Our raft is rocked violently was we crash into the raging current and lone rocks. We paddle at hard as we can to keep our craft from smashing into the jagged rocks along the shore waiting to devour us like a great white shark. Our adrenaline is pumping as it does for anyone experiencing his or her first White Water Rafting trip. A small trip to North Carolina with my family turned out to be one of my best-remembered experiences. I push off from the shore and hop into the raft as I feel my shoe drag
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Bartending in Japan In America‚ bartending is seen as something any college kid can do; all you need is to take a one-time class and be able to deal with drunken people. In Japan‚ however‚ bartending is a little different. Contrasting to America’s laid-back brashness‚ Japanese bartending is just a bit more refined. It captures a certain aesthetic and attitude towards one’s work unique to Japan. Unlike quick and dirty American mixing styles‚ bartenders in Japan inject a lot of care into their drink
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the Meiji restoration was the beginning of modernisation in Japan. Japan moved from a traditional to a modern state or from a confucian world view to a secular‚ modern‚ scientific and rationale world view. The Meiji government used the ancient Chinese ideal of enriching the country at the same time strengthening the military to secure a place among the aggressors instead of being a victim of aggression. The economic development of Japan was modernised using western ideologies‚ and this occurred
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Outline Format Introduction 1. Over 70% of Japan consists of mountains. The country also has over 200 volcanoes. Raised floors help indicate when to take off slippers or shoes. At the entrance to a home in Japan‚ the floor will usually be raised about 6 inches (15.24 cm.) indicating you should take off your shoes and put on slippers. If the house has a tatami mat room‚ its floor may be raised 1-2 inches (2.54-5.08 cm.) indicating you should take off your slippers. 2. Interested. 3. Tonight I
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History of Japan Ancient mythology holds that Japan’s history is tied to the sun goddess‚ called Amterasu. Legend has it that Amaterasu sent one of her descendants to unify people on the island of Kyushu. At the core of this unification was Shintoism a religion that is native to Japan. In the 6th century Buddhism‚ was introduced to Japan by the virtue of China and Korea. In the early 7th century Prince Regent Shotku‚ an adherent of Buddhism and a highly regarded figure to this day in Japan‚ carried
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The December 26‚ 2004 Sumatran Tsunami [pic] On the morning of December 26‚ 2004 a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck off the Northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The earthquake resulted from complex slip on the fault where the oceanic portion of the Indian Plate slides under Sumatra‚ part of the Eurasian Plate. The earthquake deformed the ocean floor‚ pushing the overlying water up into a tsunami wave. The tsunami wave devastated nearby areas where the wave may have been as high as
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new experiences and broaden one’s cultural horizon. However‚ moving aboard also brings many challenges to the expatriate and his entire family. A Human Resource (HR) manager must consider these challenges before selecting and relocating a manager to Japan in order to avoid the expatriate shifting from an initial honeymoon phase into a cross cultural shock (Cuevas et al. 2011‚ p. 45). Cross-cultural adjustment therefore is important for expatriates. This concept describes “the level of ease or difficulty
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Indian Ocean Tsunami On December 26‚ 2004‚ the Indian Ocean earthquake‚ or the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake‚ caused a tsunami that killed 230‚000 people and was recorded as the deadliest tsunami in known history. The earthquake was recorded as between 9.1 and 9.3 on the Richter scale‚ the second largest earthquake ever recorded. It was also recorded as the longest one‚ triggering earthquakes as far away as Alaska. Following the disaster‚ a worldwide effort raised billions of dollars in tsunami relief
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Impact of Industrialization on Japan from 1750-1914 In the 1750s‚ Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate‚ which had seized control of the country at the beginning of the 17th century. The shogunate centralized Japan and transformed it from a constantly warring collection of disunified states into a single country at peace. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled Japan from the early 17th century until 1868‚ a period when Japan was well behind the industrialization of other nations. During the Meiji period
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Kyle Jordan: English 9 – Chapter 19 Descriptive Writing: Create a Monster Descriptive Essay: 1. You will generate a list of 10 characteristics common to monsters. 2. You will plan and write a descriptive essay on a monster you create including the following: what the monster looks like‚ what the monster eats‚ where the monster lives‚ what the monsters personality is like. 3. You will identify‚ interpret‚ and create sensory descriptions‚ also called imagery. Repulsive looks‚ incongruous
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